Centre says there is no fertiliser shortage
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23/06/2008
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Asian Age (New Delhi)
By C. ANAND REDDY The fertiliser department will pay subsidy to companies only after ens-uring that the supplies reach district godowns. The responsibility or the role of the fertiliser ministry, so to say, ends there. This assumes significance as farmer suicides on account of shortage of fertilisers in states like Karnataka have been occurring despite the introduction of a fertiliser monitoring system since April last year. The system is supposed to ensure the supply of fertiliser to all districts in the country. The constant refrain of Union fertilisers minister Ram Vilas Paswan and officials of his ministry